(Apologies for any reader who doesn't share my interest in football.  You don't have to read on.) When I'm fed up marking, lik...

One of my parents daily rituals was to change the date on a device on top of the bureau which displayed the day, date and month.  My equival...

Living in London, I use buses a lot.  Each day I catch a 180 or 199, ignoring the 188, 286 and others whcih don't take me home.  I have ...

I have been reading the autobiography of one of my heroes - the great popular mathematics writer, Martin Gardner, who along with my school m...

Having recently put up here a couple of posts about mistakes, I feel I should perhaps say why I find (some) mistakes fascinating. As y...

The first mathematics book written in English was the snappily-titled, anonymous  An introduction for to lerne to recken with the pen, or wi...

Today I had the privilege of taking part in an excellent " Mathematics in Action " day at which around 700 school students heard a...